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	<title>The Mossy Skull</title>
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	<description>Ramblings of Michael J. DeLuca</description>
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		<title>Turkey, Heron, Vulture, Rail</title>
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Ocellated Turkey, Meleagris ocellata

Great egret, Ardea alba, in the breakwater swamps inland of Monterrico.

A black vulture, Coragyps atratus, on the ruins of Temple 1.

I think this is a tyrant flycatcher, Tyrannus verticalis. They nest in the western US in the summer.

And a gray-necked wood-rail or chiricote, Aramides cajanea. These were super hilarious to watch walking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Nubo, el Volc&#225;n</title>
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Like El Ni&#241;o, but cuddlier. 
My sister Danielle/Daniela/El Nubo/La Nuba/Udi is the reason I went to Guatemala and the reason I came back alive. She led me around by the gills speaking Spanish for me until I learned not to feel so much like a fish out of water, made a pleasant and challenging dinner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mossyskull.com/guatemala/el-nubo-el-volcn</link>
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		<title>Spider Monkey</title>
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Ateles geoffreyoi. I think. 
Don&#8217;t know what those berries are he&#8217;s eating&#8211;looks like a lot of work for not a lot of payoff. But I get the impression he knew we were watching. Maybe it was all an elaborate ploy. 
If those friendly gun-toting dudes I ran into at Tikal were indeed hunters, they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mossyskull.com/guatemala/spider-monkey</link>
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		<title>Tikal 2: Un Maya con Hambre</title>
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A tunnel at Tikal Grupo G. It burrows about 6 meters into the side of a late-Classic palace, turns right 90 degrees and emerges in the courtyard. According to Michael Coe, this wall once wore a stucco relief depicting a giant monster mask, of which the tunnel was its mouth, but I haven&#8217;t found any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mossyskull.com/guatemala/tikal-2-un-maya-con-hambre</link>
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		<title>Tikal</title>
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The money shot, looking east from the top of Temple IV. The scenes for the rebel base on the forest planet in the first Star Wars movie were shot here. Just imagine a couple of x-wings taking off out of the jungle.
Tikal is the second major Maya site I&#8217;ve visited, after Chichén Itzá. It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mossyskull.com/guatemala/tikal</link>
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		<title>Eye Tree</title>
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		<link>http://mossyskull.com/guatemala/eye-tree</link>
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		<title>The Street Hustler Storyteller&#8217;s Art Isn&#8217;t Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course it isn&#8217;t. It lives on in television infomercial hosts, wrestling announcers and multi-level marketing gurus. But I&#8217;m talking about the real thing&#8211;the carnival barker, the frontier snake oil salesman, the witch hunter. I didn&#8217;t think that was something you could see anymore in a public setting: a silver-tongued philanthropic capitalist addressing a preferably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mossyskull.com/guatemala/the-street-hustler-storytellers-art-isnt-dead</link>
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		<title>Greening the Skull (Nerfing the Skjellyfetti)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my new year&#8217;s resolutions, as urged on me (not really) by Al Gore and the repoweramerica.org mailing list I signed up for sometime in December, was to move my various internet assets to a carbon-neutral hosting provider. So I did a lot of research into green web hosts, and I settled on Green [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mossyskull.com/environmentalism/greening-the-skull-nerfing-the-skjellyfetti</link>
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		<title>The Third World</title>
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Patchwork farmland west of Antigua.
Everybody should visit a third world country at least once, if only so they can come to a more round understanding of that term. I don&#8217;t know how I ever got on without having been to one.
Prior to visiting Guatemala, I had operated under the not-entirely-inaccurate assumption that &#8220;third world&#8221; referred [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mossyskull.com/beer/the-third-world</link>
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		<title>Expatriates and Homebodies</title>
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A coati in the gardens outside Tikal.
Nasua narica
So I went to Guatemala the other week.
I don&#8217;t get to travel that often. Travel costs a lot, and my life strategy has been to spend just barely enough of my time working to keep myself alive, so as to have as much free time for writing as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mossyskull.com/guatemala/expatriates-and-homebodies</link>
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